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...Center's Avery Fisher Hall waiting to receive the acclaim of 2,500 New Yorkers who had gathered two weeks ago to celebrate his 53 years of achievement in the movies. Olivier is a frail 75 now, and his body has played grudging host to enough illnesses to wipe out the entire Royal Shakespeare Company. So backstagers looked on with pain but not surprise as he momentarily lost his balance and slumped against the doorway. Then the crowd rose, and with it the applause. Olivier took his cue and went out onstage. Suddenly he was the dashing Lord Larry...
...recommended reducing the impact and number of frats in the [housing] report," Mather said. That section of the proposal, she added, initially came under heavy attack from students concerned that the college was trying to wipe out fraternities...
...Celtics played without forward Larry Bird, who was left home with a groin injury. They went on a scoring spree in the third quarter behind the shooting of Kevin McHale and Gerald Henderson to wipe out an early 15-point Detroit lead and pull in front momentarily...
...match wasn't a total wipe-out for the Crimson. Chet Nastala, who was two under par on the back nine holes, shot an outstanding 73, one under par for the course. Nichols shot a 78, Mosle a 79 and Steve Baker and Emmett O'Donnell each finished at 80. MIT's seventh player proved to be the deciding factor, shooting a surprising...
...anti-missiles idea, this time in satellite form, it provoked immediate outcry from those who defend deterrence. In this light, it is easy to understand the alarm felt in American defense circles when it appeared that the Soviet Union had achieved first-strike capability--the ability to attack and wipe out our land-based nuclear forces--seriously eroding the credibility of the American deterrent...